Tasty Bite

Food is one of my favorite topics. A problem with much customary American food is that it's rather boring. That doesn't mean I don't like it: I love simple foods like mashed potatoes, cheese burgers, and so on. I've even written about a simple fried egg here.

But after awhile, one wants more exposure to the exotic foods and flavors of the world We read about those, but except at a restaurant, can't get it simply. Now it's available.

Tasty Bite is the name of a panoply of superb Indian cuisine that can be prepared very easily and added to rice, vegetables and other dishes, or just eaten alone for lunch. All are all natural and vegetarian. I'm not a vegetarian, so often add some chicken (the Purdue prepared chicken strips are great and easy). I'm looking at a product called Paneer Makhani: it's "homestyle paneer cheese in a creamy spiced sauce." The product has just 240 calories. One boils the pouch in water for five minutes or microwaves it in a bowl for 90 seconds. That's it.

The Indian spices are superb - sooooo tasty. And not "hot". I don't like "hot" spicy foods; they are usually too hot. Mild is OK.

Tasty Bite makes many different flavors; all have been excellent. We first found this product at Whole Foods. But that's no longer convenient for us, so we bought a case online and put that in the pantry. Shelf life is months. See http://www.tastybite.com/

Some are suitable alone for lunch, like a vegetable stew, but with incredibly tasty exotic spices.

This is a five star product family in my book.

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More up. This feels like a crowd of penguins edging closer & closer to the ice cliff. I'll check the Krypto Fund for orders later this AM. I've been compared to a perma-bear in the commentary lately. That seems inappropriate to me since I was targeting S&P 1200 last summer and was ridiculed widely [ ahem, by that same critic ;) ]. Now we are there. I have more strong urges to cut back. I'll stick with Krypto, though. She's a super fund manager. Good doggie. Here's your fee - a tasty dog treat.

Word of the Day

"Limn" - verb, transitive [$10]
Limn means 1. to describe, to portray in words; 2. (archaic) paint (esp. a miniature portrait); 3. (historical) illuminate (such as a manuscript).
Sentence: It's quire impossible to limn the taste of Tasty Bite Indian cuisine - the flavor is as tasty as the illumination of a manuscript is beautiful.

I came across this word first in Goethe's Faust - the Great Books edition, Dedication, line 3. Recently, it was also in the Book of the Week - Braddock's March, page xiv. Without checking the true meaning, one would guess wrongly from this sentence: "lessons from that experience that are limned deep in the American self-conscious." It doesn't mean the lessons are deeply etched or engraved - it mean the picture - illumination - is placed deep in the self-conscious.